1: mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.
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鏡餅 (mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.)
You know, I saw a huge kagami mochi earlier. Like this big!
Grizzly, should I grill the New Year's rice cakes
The round shape of the kagami mochi is made to represent a mirror. Old legends say that the gods reside within mirrors.
Ta-da! Kagami mochi.
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